I Don’t Have A Crystal Ball

I just had the realization that the majority of people who use “I don’t have a crystal ball…” to start a sentence are total dicks.
On a totally unrelated note, we went to this waterpark a couple weeks ago when we visited my parents in Ontario(Oregon). The water park was super duper awesome. So much fun. I love water parks! For real. It made me think of this amazing photograph by Joel Sternfeld, he being probably my most favoritist of all photographers.

And since you mentioned amazing photographers and Ontario, Oregon, why not take a look at this photograph by Stephen Shore he took inside the Stampeder Motel, now sadly the Economy Inn Motel.

And if Stephen Shore is too modern and whacky for your taste, how bout ol’ Dorothea Lange. Here’s a photograph she took in the thirties when she was among many documentary photographers working for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. There are lots she took around Ontario and Malheur County. This is of the Malheur Butte, which is very iconic and idendifiable in the area.

That huge pipe runs from the Owyhee Reservoir which is some fifty miles away. On a side note to the last four side notes, I got to go inside the dam for a tour in high school. It was fucking nuts! The reservoir is also famous for its glory hole–not what you’re thinking–which I would categorize somewhere between fascinating and terrifying. I digress…the huge tube carries the water from the reservoir to the surrounding farm land. When it’s not flowing with water, drunk high schoolers walk around in it and spray paint their names on it.